Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's Sam Duckworth isn't going to take too much time off this festive season: once he's finished off the cold yurky in his fridge, he'll be hitting the road for what people in the industry are calling a 'tour'.

Duckworth - whose debut album under his grammatically-challenged guise, The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager, is out now - will celebrate his 21st birthday with a gig at London's Astoria on January 30. Twenty-one, eh... when I was 21, I was still playing places like the Water Rats. How they grow up, these days...